Spend any time working in first-line IT support and you discover pretty quickly that about 30% of humanity is, and always has been, irredeemably unhinged.
https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1417228788631580675
Also, that this 30% isn't confined to any gender, class or socio-economic group. The unhingedness doesn't discriminate.
Doing first-line was the point I realised things like Star Trek could never be the future IRL. Because they presuppose a drift to rationality. Never happening
Doing first-line was the point I realised things like Star Trek could never be the future IRL. Because they presuppose a drift to rationality. Never happening
I'd say at any given time an additional 15% of humanity are completely open to being unhinged.
As long as it appears to deliver reasonable outcomes for themselves or family, or the thing people are being unhinged about seems popular.
As long as it appears to deliver reasonable outcomes for themselves or family, or the thing people are being unhinged about seems popular.
The survival and prosperity of both our species and nations has always depended on the hinged keeping the redeemably hinged from finding the unhinged cool and beneficial.
Unfortunately, globally we've been failing hard at that for at least 20 years now.
Unfortunately, globally we've been failing hard at that for at least 20 years now.
Bunch of reasons for that. But there's no doubt the explosion in the ease of communication has played a huge part.
When the good burghers of Hartlepool hanged a monkey for possibly being French, at least they didn't have Facebook or r/frenchmonkeys to post to, unfettered.
When the good burghers of Hartlepool hanged a monkey for possibly being French, at least they didn't have Facebook or r/frenchmonkeys to post to, unfettered.
If you grew up in Britain in the 80s, you grew up listening to Bob Hoskins telling you that it's good to talk.
Turns out you were wrong on that one, Bob.
Turns out you were wrong on that one, Bob.
The issue is that a form of induced demand exists for unhingedness.
It's not that the sensible people are silent, it's that any effort to increase the signal creates new capacity for noise.
No idea how society fixes that. But louder good people isn't it.
It's not that the sensible people are silent, it's that any effort to increase the signal creates new capacity for noise.
No idea how society fixes that. But louder good people isn't it.
https://twitter.com/evaDrD/status/1417390117870784512?s=20
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